The Purple Cow: Suite

The Purple Cow: Suite

Original Text
The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901): 62-63.
CONFESSION: and a Portrait, Too,
Upon a Background that I Rue!
1Ah, Yes! I Wrote the "Purple Cow" --
2I'm Sorry, now, I Wrote it!
3But I can Tell you Anyhow,
4I'll Kill you if you Quote it!
Publication Start Year
1897
Publication Notes
The Lark 24 (April 1897), from which this title is taken
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
Rhyme
abab